Search results
James Speed (March 11, 1812 – June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician, and professor who was in 1864 appointed by Abraham Lincoln to be the United States Attorney General. Speed previously served in the Kentucky legislature and in local political offices.
Oct 24, 2022 · Speed, James. 27th Attorney General, 1864 - 1866. Download Image. James Speed was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 11, 1812. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Kentucky, studied law at Transylvania University and was admitted to the bar at Louisville in 1833. In 1847 Speed was elected to the State legislature, and in 1861 ...
James Speed (1865–1866) James Speed was born in 1812 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He attended St. Joseph’s College and Transylvania University, studied the law, and was admitted to the state bar in 1833. Speed practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky, until he was elected to the state legislature in 1847.
Speed was educated in public schools and later graduated from St. Joseph's College in Bardstown and the Transylvania College law school in Lexington. Lincoln first met James Speed while visiting the Speed family's Kentucky plantation during the summer of 1841, when Speed was an attorney in Louisville.
Cabinet and Vice Presidents: James Speed (1812-1887) James Speed was the Attorney General of the United States who succeeded Edward Bates in late 1864. He was the brother of Joshua Speed, who had been Mr. Lincoln’s closest friend in Springfield before Speed returned to Kentucky in 1841. The friendship was transferred to James; guard William ...
James J. Holmberg, "James Speed" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 842. Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.
Speed was born March 11, 1812, in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He was the son of Kentucky pioneers John Speed and Lucy Gilmer Fry Speed and counted among his ancestors a Revolutionary War hero (Captain James Speed) and an English historian (John Speed). Speed attended local schools and then St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky.
